{"nrhp_refnum":"76001658","name":"Nicholas, Jacob, House","other_names":["Little Stone House Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"458 Ferry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Easton","county":"Northampton County","state":"PA","lat":40.68941840700006,"lon":-75.21264509399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pre-Revolutionary stone bank house in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, built into a hillside and dated ca. 1750. It is two and a half stories high with three bays on its north main facade.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as one of about half a dozen buildings in Easton surviving from the Revolutionary era and as a typical 18th-century three-bay small dwelling. It is linked to Jacob Nicholas, a Durham boat captain, and to the Durham boat fleet based in Easton that was used to transport Washington's troops after the Battle of Trenton.","narrative":"Built into a hillside in Easton around 1750, the Jacob Nicholas House is a two-and-a-half-story stone bank house with three bays on its north facade. Its regularly coursed limestone front contrasts with randomly laid stone on the other walls, and the interior retains original chair rails, baseboards, random-width pine and oak floors, and a stair with square newel and balusters. The attic still has original mortise-and-tenon splayed rafters. Jacob Nicholas, a Durham boat captain, lived here with his wife Margaret and their children, and his son Charles stayed on for several years after Jacob's death in 1832. Easton was home to the largest fleet of Durham boats in the state, which carried trade goods to Philadelphia. Durham boats gained wider fame when General George Washington commandeered a fleet of them to evacuate his troops after the Battle of Trenton. The house is regarded as one of the few Revolutionary-era buildings remaining in Easton and as a typical example of 18th-century small dwellings in the region.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as excellent and unaltered but deteriorated, with about 90% of the original structure intact; moisture problems on the ground floor were noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.379702-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001658.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001658/d781828ae9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001658/d781828ae9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"KForce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JacobNicholasHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">KForce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JacobNicholasHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002264","name":"Easton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/easton-historic-district-83002264/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Nicholas_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6119047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/northampton-county/nicholas-jacob-house-76001658/"}